2016 is the 950th anniversary of 1066, which climaxed with the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest. Conference in February commemorates the Bayeux Tapestry
Category: Medieval Histories
‘Medieval Histories’ offers medievalists all the news about exhibitions, books, research, archaeology, travel-tips and much more from the Medieval World
The Story of Christ on a Donkeyand the Medieval Palmesel
The use of a statue of a donkey - a Palmesel - in connection with Palm Sunday is mentioned for the first time in the 10th century
The Entry into Jerusalem
Gothic Ivories Project has become a very important resource. We celebrate the intiative by presenting a recently recorded Diptych with Scenes from the Passion of Christ from Sarnen in Switzerland
Local Saints in Scandinavia
There is a clear link between the celebration of local saints and the ecclesiastical administration, which emerged in Scandinavia in the 12th century
The Reinterment of Richard III
Early on Leicester Cathedral appointed a Liturgy Committee to come up with a plan for the reinterment of Richard III. The result has now been revealed.
Magna Carta Website
A lovely and inspiring website invites us all to discover the history and legacy of one of the world’s most celebrated documents, the Magna Carta
Vestment From the Time of Richard III
A priceless vestment believed to be from the royal wardrobe of Richard III will be worn by Cardinal Vincent Nichols celebrating Requiem Mass for the king
Richard III unwilling participant in undignified pantomime
Pageant, feast, show? Judging from the media’s comments on the on-going reburial of Richard III, it seems appropriate the Queen of England has kept her distance to what has obviously turned into a gaudy event filled with disrespect
Visigoths in Barcelona
The City Museum in Barcelona has remodeled its exhibition devoted to the period from Late Antiquity and into the 8th century: the Visigothic period
Jewish Heirs to Guelph Treasure Sue Germany in USA
The heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have filed a lawsuit in the USA suing Germany for the return of the medieval Guelph Treasure worth an estimated $226 – 250m.
Table and Diplomacy from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
The importance of a meal as the setting for diplomacy is well known. Conference in 2016 seeks to focus on different aspects of such meals from the Middle Ages to the present.
Crusades, Christianity and Islam
Jonathan Riley-Schmit is one of the most prominent crusade-scholars in present-day academia. In 2008 he wrote a very significant book on the uses and abuses of the history of crusading
The Hundred Years War – A People’s History
How did people in Late Medieval England and France experience the Hundred Years War. What did knights, clerics, women, peasants, soldiers, nobles and kings think about it? New book by David Green tells the story
The Scottish People 1490-1625
The Scottish People, 1490-1625 is one of the most comprehensive texts ever written on Scottish History at the time of the reformation
Historians on Chaucer
The aim of this volume is to introduce historians to the literary qualities and characteristics of one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales.
Early Medieval Monasticism around the North Sea
CFP for Conference in April 2015 in Kent on Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea Zone